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OK, today I was going through one of my pictures folders and just happened to stumble across a "file" stuck in with the pictures. The name of that file was similar to the one that I was talking about in that first thread but it has a ".1" file extension instead of a ".jpg" extension.

I tried to open it and got the Microsoft note saying that Windows couldn't open the file and asking if I wanted to search the INTERNET pro a program that could open it.

Now comes my question... At the top of the page is a little information bubble that says;

Description 1 is the file extension for the STEP Backup file associated with Iomega Backup.

Windows Cannot Open 1 Files? If Windows cannot open 1 you may not have the appropriate program installed or have a registry related error. We strongly recommend you run a free registry scan. OK, I wrote all of that "Before" I went out Googling and educated myself a little. So now that I know there is such a thing as Iomega I need to change my question a little...as I have never used Iomega, and there is no such animal installed on my system how the heck did I end up with something called "A STEP Backup" copy of one of my files done by that program?

And more importantly "How can I access that backup file?" When I open it in Word Pad it has the resemblance of being an encrypted document.

Anyone have any experience using that program?

Wendy

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If you download a utility like File Analyzer you can identify the format of a file, with what it was compiled, encrypted, packed, etc. Once you know what the format of the file is you will know what you need to open it with.

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Well I managed to track its format down to something called a "STEP Backup" from something called Iomega, but I don't have that program on my PC.

So my original questions are still there. !.) How the heck did one of my .wps documents get saved as a .1? 2.) How the heck did it get from within a folder in my documents folder over to another folder in my pictures folder? and 3.) How the heck can I open it?

OK, I'm off now to check out that link...

Thanks,

Wendy

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If you download a utility like File Analyzer you can identify the format of a file, with what it was compiled, encrypted, packed, etc. Once you know what the format of the file is you will know what you need to open it with.

I downloaded this link how do you use the program

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I took a look at that second link that you gave me ans I don't have any of those things installed on my PC. I'm checking out the first link as we speak.

As stated in my original post I think that I know what the file is but I just don't understand how it got from where it was in my documents folder where it was a .wps document file and into a folder in my pictures folder and with a .1 extension.

I was able to open it in wordpad but I couldn't read it because it looks as though it has been encrypted.

I Shall continue with this tomorrow as I have got to get to bed.

Wendy

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Weird. Avast complained loudly twice on the Zip file before I even had a chance to scan it. It did name the alleged Trojan but I didn't take any notice as Eraser was thru it in 2 seconds. LOL
Good luck.

Well, I still don't know about it. I've been talking to OldTimer about it and he said that he just downloaded it and told me what to look for to be able to use it.

I had gotten it downloaded and unzipped once but it wouldn't work so I had deleted it. Then when I tried to download it again I got a "0" byte folder a couple of times too.

I think some of my problem was coming from my Unzipping utility, which was CAM UnZip, because once I had gotten it to download again and I tried to unzip it I was getting some weird notice saying "this is disk one of a backup set, please insert disk one" or something like that.

Anyway, I got rid of CAM UnZip and got FreeZip. Then downloaded File Analyzer again. It has 375 kb in its zipped state, and unzips to 1.06 MB. There is supposed to be a file fa.exe in there somewhere but so far I haven't found it yet, so I have to get back to OldTimer and find out exactly where to look for that file.

I'll let you know what happens.

Wendy

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